What Is Agenda 21

"Sustainable Development" is the buzz word of the day, but what exactly does that mean?

"Agenda 21 for Dummy's" is a great video and Tea Party view of the United Nations and new world order.

Agenda 21 In One Easy Lesson

Thursday, 07 April 2011

By Tom DeWeese

Awareness of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development is racing across the nation as citizens in community after community are learning what their city planners are actually up to. As awareness grows, I am receiving more and more calls for tools to help activists fight back. Many complain that elected officials just won’t read detailed reports or watch long videos. “Can you give us something that is quick, and easy to read that we can hand out,” I’m asked.

So here it is. A one page, quick description of Agenda 21. I’ve also included for the back side of your hand out a list of quotes for the perpetrators of Agenda 21 that should back up my brief descriptions.

A word of caution: Use this as a starter kit but do not allow it to be your only knowledge of this very complex subject. To kill it you have to know the facts. Research, know your details and discover the NGO players in your community.

Identify who is victimized by the policies and recruit them to your fight; and then kill Agenda 21. That’s how it must be done. The information below is only your first step. Happy hunting.

What is Sustainable Development?

According to its authors, the objective of sustainable development is to integrate economic, social and environmental policies in order to achieve reduced consumption, social equity, and the preservation and restoration of biodiversity. Sustainablists insist that every societal decision be based on environmental impact, focusing on three components; global land use, global education, and global population control and reduction.

Social Equity (Social Justice)

Social justice is described as the right and opportunity of all people “to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment.” Redistribution of wealth. Private property is a social injustice since not everyone can build wealth from it. National sovereignty is a social injustice. Universal health care is a social justice. All part of Agenda 21 policy.

Economic Prosperity

Public Private Partnerships (PPP). Special dealings between government and certain, chosen corporations which get tax breaks, grants and the government’s power of

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (formally, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives). Communities pay ICLEI dues to provide “local” community plans, software, training, etc. Addition groups include American Planning Council, The Renaissance Planning Group, International City/ County Management Group, aided by US Mayors Conference, National Governors Association, National League of Cities, National Association of County Administrators and many more private organizations and official government agencies. Foundation and government grants drive the process.

Where did it originate?

The term Sustainable Development was first introduced to the world in the pages a 1987 report (Our Common Future) produced by the United Nations World Commission on Environmental and Development, authored by Gro Harlem Brundtland, VP of the World Socialist Party. The term was first offered as official UN policy in 1992, in a document called UN Sustainable Development Agenda 21, issued at the UN’s Earth Summit, today referred to simply as Agenda 21.

What gives Agenda 21 Ruling Authority?

More than 178 nations adopted Agenda 21 as official policy during a signing ceremony at the Earth Summit. US president George H.W. Bush signed the document for the US. In signing, each nation pledge to adopt the goals of Agenda 21. In 1995, President Bill Clinton, in compliance with Agenda 21, signed Executive Order #12858 to create the President’s Council on Sustainable Development in order to “harmonize” US environmental policy with UN directives as outlined in Agenda 21. The EO directed all agencies of the Federal Government to work with state and local community governments in a joint effort “reinvent” government using the guidelines outlined in Agenda 21. As a result, with the assistance of groups like ICLEI, Sustainable Development is now emerging as government policy in every town, county and state in the nation.

Revealing Quotes From the Planners

“Agenda 21 proposes an array of actions which are intended to be implemented by EVERY person on Earth…it calls for specific changes in the activities of ALL people… Effective execution of Agenda 21 will REQUIRE a profound reorientation of ALL humans, unlike anything the world has ever experienced… ” Agenda 21: The Earth Summit Strategy to Save Our Planet (Earthpress, 1993). Emphases – DR

Urgent to implement – but we don’t know what it is!

“The realities of life on our planet dictate that continued economic development as we know it cannot be sustained…Sustainable development, therefore is a program of action for local and global economic reform – a program that has yet to be fully defined.” The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide, published by ICLEI, 1996.

“No one fully understands how or even, if, sustainable development can be achieved; however, there is growing consensus that it must be accomplished at the local level if it is ever to be achieved on a global basis.” The Local Agenda 21 Planning Guide, published by ICLEI, 1996.

Agenda 21 and Private Property

“Land…cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principle instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth, therefore contributes to social justice.” From the report from the 1976 UN’s Habitat I Conference.

“Private land use decisions are often driven by strong economic incentives that result in several ecological and aesthetic consequences…The key to overcoming it is through public policy…” Report from the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, page 112.

“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work air conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable.” Maurice Strong, Secretary General of the UN’s Earth Summit, 1992.

Reinvention of Government

“We need a new collaborative decision process that leads to better decisions, more rapid change, and more sensible use of human, natural and financial resources in achieving our goals.” Report from the President’s Council on Sustainable Development. “Individual rights will have to take a back seat to the collective.” Harvey Ruvin, Vice Chairman, ICLEI. The Wildlands Project: “We must make this place an insecure and inhospitable place for Capitalists and their projects – we must reclaim the roads and plowed lands, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres or presently settled land.” Dave Foreman, Earth First.

What is not sustainable?

Ski runs, grazing of livestock, plowing of soil, building fences, industry, single family homes, paves and tarred roads, logging activities, dams and reservoirs, power line construction, and economic systems that fail to set proper value on the environment.” UN’s Biodiversity Assessment Report.

Hide Agenda 21’s UN roots from the people

“Participating in a UN advocated planning process would very likely bring out many of the conspiracy- fixated groups and individuals in our society… This segment of our society who fear ‘one-world government’ and a UN invasion of the United States through which our individual freedom would be stripped away would actively work to defeat any elected official who joined ‘the conspiracy’ by undertaking LA21. So we call our process something else, such as comprehensive planning, growth management or smart growth.” J. Gary Lawrence, Advisor to President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development.

Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development What They Bring

By David Gallant

There has been a lot of talk lately about something called “Sustainable Development.” For many of us this is a new term. At face value it sounds like more of the same recycle and wind mill type talk we have all heard for years. For others, images of “Little House on the Prairie” might come to mind. And for the former and perhaps current hippies, it would not be too far flung to suggest the conjured images of life in a 1960’s style commune.

The precise method of implementation is still a vague dream being outlined among various regulatory elitists but it is certain that if Sustainable Development is made a reality of our lives, everything will change. Recently Panasonic drafted a plan to build their vision of what they are billing as a “Sustainable Smart Town.” [1]

According to Panasonic’s plan, they intent to start from the ground up and create an energy efficient town incorporating solar power and integrated computers to regulate energy use. Despite the difficulties befalling Japan recently Panasonic intends to have this housing project complete by 2014.

But the issue of Sustainable Development does not end here. In fact this instance only provides insight. In 1992 the United Nations drafted a plan widely known as Agenda 21 [2] which details a blueprint for correcting, as they see it, mankind’s effect on the environment. The intention is to address the problems of widening inequalities in income and a continued deterioration of the global environments.

This plan was originally adopted on June 13 of 1992 by 178 governments. Progress was later appraised in 1997 where those adopting governments were graded on their improvements. Then on June 09, 2011, our president, Barak Obama, signed Presidential Executive Order #13575, titled Establishment of the White House Rural Council. [3] This executive order essentially provides federal funding for the US to begin complying with the UN Agenda 21, which up until then Congress had resisted.

Now for the meat and potatoes of what Agenda 21 is. At the very heart of this plan is the intention to bring impoverished nations, such as can be found throughout Africa, up the economic standards of the Western style civilization while not impacting and perhaps even repairing the environment. This is a grand scheme to redistribute wealth mainly through the transference of production.

Simply put, through environmental regulations, the plan is to make it too expensive to produce, for instance, shoes in one nation. That forces the shoe manufacturer to have his business relocate at least the manufacturing end someplace where labor and environmental costs are acceptable. However, if the new location has adopted the Agenda 21 plan, the new facility would be constructed under approved “Sustainable Development” standards.

Therefore, the place the shoes are made would meet the UN goal of zero to positive environmental impact. What does that mean to the average person? Well, the people where the shoe factory is would benefit financially. And, in turn would benefit the community at large and the average person could feel good about buying reasonably priced shoes made in such a way as to not negatively impact the environment. However, that is only the plan, not the implementation.

As with any plan dedicated towards social engineering, human corruption always finds a way to throw a wrench in the machine. The result is and always will be bribery and collusion. Nike, for example, has had a long history of operating sweat shops around the word. Their record of abusing workers with toxic materials under poor working conditions has been reported on for years. [4] The most recent information came from Greenpeace in a report of how manufacturing companies are polluting the water supply. [5]

Even though Greenpeace spoke generally of the textile industry as a whole and mentioned Nike only within a group of companies who enjoy China’s cheap labor and corrupt bureaucracy, the response from Nike speaks volumes to the issue of Agenda 21. Within this response you will find mention of everything “sustainable” from the supply chain to the chemicals. [6]

But this just brings us back to the town Panasonic is planning. The major problem with sustainable development, as highlighted by Nike’s problems, is the cost of development. It is simply too expensive to modify an existing manufacturing sight to meet Agenda 21 standards. So far the solution has been to bribe officials and essentially use slave labor so nobody will report the corruption. [7] And the corruption is rampant and companies are flocking to regions such as China to take advantage of it and enjoy the 80 cent per hour labor cost. [8] So how does the UN get around this problem? What is the solution?

Panasonic may be on the right track. Simply build a new city. Existing cities and towns are inefficient and dirty. Most are old and have antiquated services from sewer to power. Commutes are often poorly planned with circuitous routes causing traffic buildups. And these problems often cause what is known as “urban sprawl.”

Urban sprawl is equally unpopular by those supporting Agenda 21’s sustainable development scheme. Those supporters blame urban sprawl for the problems of decreased farmland, loss of wild life and diminished recreation land. Also, they claim urban sprawl causes a variety of pollutions from water to noise. [9] Thus, they have made it clear they do not like existing cities any more than new ones created through the natural selection of urban sprawl.

Which brings us back to Panasonic’s idea: build a new city which is already in compliance with Agenda 21. But as it turns out they may not have been the first ones to think of this. Recently it has been discovered that China has been building cities throughout its more remote regions. [10] These cities have so far gone largely unnoticed and there is little information on them. However, one thing is clear: the cities are empty.

Until now, the construction of these cities is being blamed on an economic problem in the country which encourages building even for pointless reasons. I, however, am not so sure. One has only to look at the how China handled the relocation of its residents during the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. Their method was to simply force residents to leave or help in the construction. If a citizen was unable or unwilling to help, they were forcibly relocated resulting in the uprooting of 1.4 million individuals. [11]

The good news is that this method of mass relocation is not likely to take place in any Western nation. The bad news is that the door is open to more clandestine and sinister methods. It has yet to be shown that there is an actual connection between the Chinese ghost cities and Agenda 21 so it may be too soon to draw conclusions. However, if the two are related, a Pandora style box of evils is opened. Americans need to be prepared.

A while ago, Jersey Girl posted a web site I should check out. Well, I just did....and have spent the last couple of hours watching unbelievable videos on the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor. Below is a blog from the suggested site:

Every once in a while I'll say 'This stuff is so crazy that you couldn't make it up if you tried.' It's the Disaster Movie of the Week that you can't shut off. Well, I guess we can, and will. Right? Are you with me? I know you are!

Anyway, I've been looking at the proposed Trans Texas Corridor information and it's ugly. The plan is for a toll road running through Texas, owned by a Spanish company, only 5 on/off ramps through the entire STATE, and it's a quarter mile wide. Splits the state in half. Texans stood up and said Hell No and it went away for a while but it's still alive and in the planning stages at Texas Dept of Transportation. It's the North American Union roadway designed to bringgoods in from a Mexican port, bypassing US ports in Long Beach and Oakland, and then shooting them up to Canada with major linkages to US interstates. It's not designed to relieve congestion in Texas--it's essentially a land based shipping lane that is controlled and owned by a foreign entity.

Yep. There is a terrific video on YouTube called Truth Be Tolled that you should watch.

the direction of United Nations ICLEI, some "public/private partnerships" are signing declarations (called a B-Corporation) that basically declare independence from the Republic that our forefathers founded. (Public means government, private means international corporations). This means that "our state government and international corporations" will only recognize the UN Charter and Universal Declaration on Human Rights as the ultimate authority,thus throwing the US Constitution and Bill of Rights into the garbage. The states of Hawaii, Virginia, Maryland, Vermont, New Jersey have already passed B-Corporation Legislation. The following six states are in the process of making it part of their states corporate legal system: California, Colorado, Michigan, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

Opportunity in America does not exist today, in-part due to low tariffs on imports. Low tariffs moved American supply lines off-shore making access to supply out of reach, difficult to find, blocked, taxed or not available to most "low volume buyers" such as our independent entrepreneurs and kitchen table inventors! Simultaneously, the Presidents Council on Sustainable Development pushed for local zoning reform and new regulations to de-zone industrial land and convert that land into a protected properties (Brownfields Projects), while raising the bar on pollution standards to levels that are so high, that under international rules it would be impossible for any American to drill for oil or mine ore, refine the resource that came from the ground, or to manufacture anything at all, without breaking at least one of the many nternational codes. So even if United States did raise tariffs in order to encourage more maufacturing in America, manufacturing--according to the United Nations, would be blocked by the UN Wildlands projects, pollution standards and other things, making it impossible to bring manufacturing b

Great videos! would also suggest FOOD,INC. an excellent resource on these matters ,as always follow the money folks or should I say the fiat money & when they jerk the rug out from under all that paper they can't have people bartering nutritious food for goods or services they need thus creating an economy that isn't dependent on the government for their existence ! Hence the need to rid the Kings forest of the serfs ! I would also suggest this collection of videos ! God bless & God Bless America -

"By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech."-- Harry A. Blackmun(1908-1999) U. S. Supreme Court Justice

“Other indications point to a cover up concerning water pipes. Larry Chertoff, who is one of the top water guys in the country, was interviewed by this reporter and vehemently denied that the double water line system exists. When emailed the Spokane blueprints attached to this story, he declined further comment. Larry Chertoff, by the way, is the “secret cousin” of former Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff. Larry Chertoff is currently a director of Alinda Capital Partners LLC, the largest independent infrastructure private equity fund, and has had more than 30 years experience in the public and private sector working on water projects. He was chief economist for New York City’s Environmental Protection Administration. He was also the US correspondent to Global Water Intelligence, as well as an advisor to the NYC Comptroller on watershed protection issues. He is a founding Board member of the Environmental Action Coalition, Water Industry Council and Water Institute of the National Council for Public Private partnering and a member of the National Research Council’s Water and Technology Board Committee of Privatization of Water Services in the United States.”

“We call Larry a “secret” cousin, for he vigorously denies a familial relationship with DHS Michael Chertoff, although Larry’s ex-wife has copped to the fact that they are, indeed, cousins. Michael Chertoff was a co-author of the U.S. Patriot Act, which has legalized the use of poisons and delivery systems, in the infamous Section 817.”

LAND: When our government mentions “conservation,” “wetlands,” “wildlife” and “sustainable,” what they mean is they are taking possession and control of the land and the American people will not be allowed to inhabit those areas. Here’s an excerpt from Obama’s White House Rural Council Report:

“The Administration has made significant investments in expanding outdoor opportunities to create sustained economic growth in rural America, including enrolling 7.1 million acres in the Conservation Reserve Program, which retires environmentally sensitive farm lands and has set aside 300,000 acres in the program specifically to benefit game species; partnering military with state and local governments, land trusts, and landowners to secure conservation easements through the Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative (REPI) which protects more than 170,000 acres; removing 86,927 tons of biomass from our National Forests to produce energy; and working with farmers to restore wetlands habitat on 470,000 acres in the Gulf coastal plain following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in order to conserve migratory waterfowl.”

In Wisconsin:

“The Landscape Stewards program, a partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, will leverage up to $200,000 to support coalition-based conservation efforts beginning next year, with each grant matched by equal contributions from the coalition partners – part of President Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors initiative.”

Also, we must not forget that when the government decided to blow up the Birds Point levee and flood people out of their houses and farms, Obama’s Federal government offered to buy their land… and George Soros was buying up the flooded farms too.

The Obama administration has been working hand-in-glove with the United Nations (UN) to end property rights in America and transition to Global Governance. Once achieved, the citizens of this country will become slaves to the colonial rulers – the globalists who will institute a world-wide Socialist economy under Communist/Totalitarian rule. If you

Give him an inch and he’ll take a mile… 95% of America’s land area to be exact – rural America.

You might be thinking this doesn’t affect you because you don’t live in ‘rural America,’ but think again because the agenda in play is to eliminate all property rights in the U.S.

The first order of business is to drive out the 16% of our population who currently live and work in rural America. The final steps to implement the “Agenda for the 21st Century” have begun.

Decades in the making (long before Obama became President), the framework was slowly integrated into the U.S. all the way down to the local level in the form of environmental programs (e.g. Sustainable Development, Smart Growth). With Obama in office, the race to the finish line has begun with a President whose stated goal is “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”

Obama’s administration has initiated the final phase through Executive Order (EO) 13575 and new oppressive regulations. Here’s a taste of the first steps of Obama’s takeover…

FOOD: Family farms are facing an all-out assault on their very existence by Obama’s administration. From his Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) proposing to regulate agricultural vehicles as Commercial Motor Vehicles (CMVs), to armed raids at raw food stores, to regulating vendors at Farmers Markets, there’s a war being waged against those who produce and provide food for the people of our country. What the FMCSA is trying to do will end family farms in our country whose children contribute to planting and harvesting their crops; their children would not be able to operate agricultural vehicles if classified as CMVs. Although the FMCSA is backing off due to pressure from the public and from Senators, they’ll try again when they think we’re not paying attention.

WATER: We all remember that the government denied water to the farms in California’s Central Valley which utterly destroyed the crops and the families who lived there. Government control and manipulation of our water supply is hitting farms with a vengeance and it doesn’t stop there… it extends to our cities, as reported by Janet C. Phelan in her article, “Homeward Bound – Water As A Weapon.”

“At the same time that the economic realities are keeping us close to home, the government is amassing campaigns, in cities across the country, to get us back on tap water and off bottled water.

The proponents of tap cite a number of reasons that they prefer tap to bottled – drinking bottled water contributes to the emission of greenhouse gases (because the water has to be transported); the increasing amount of plastic bottles in landfills; the sapping of aquifers by bottled; and that selling water guts efforts to make safe drinking water a basic human right. There is increasing concern that chemicals leaching from plastic bottles into the contained water may, in fact, be carcinogenic. Numerous reports recently peppered the main stream press alluding to high bacteria levels in bottled water and a low fluoride level in bottled water.”

Through FOIA requests and relentless investigative reporting, Ms. Phelan discovered multiple, parallel water-pipes in Medford, Oregon. When she tried to determine why there was a second water pipeline and what it could possibly be used for, she was met with denials and lies. What she did discover was this (think ‘Michael Chertoff – former DHS Chief – who is also connected to the company that

What country & what peoples have gone to such lengths as to route the Kings men from their forest ? This is the reason they have used 1st our monetary system 2nd our educational system (both of which has had profound effects upon our traditional core religious & family values!) & 3rd the debunking of the historical records in order to pervert the reason we kicked their sorry butts out to begin with ! The revolution did not end in the early 1800's it just turned covert & you let the people get comfy for awhile & they forget that the worlds dark powers that we fought so hard rid our chains of are still at work behind the scenes whittling away at our freedoms that so many gave all for so that we could live free ! We must if possible at this point not become complacent again if we are able to turn this around my prayer is that it is not to late ! God Bless America!

What amazes me about this whole Agenda 21 thing and America, is that in the countries where there is more wealth, the reproduction rate isn't as high. So.... why are they trying to dumb down the Americans if they are trying to controll the poputlation. I know, a rhetorical question, but it does have merit, with this whole Agenda 21, UN crap. Educate the people that they need to be more careful with our environment, recycle, reuse, but don't tell me that I can't farm on my own land to provide for my family!!!